In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down.
MARIO ANDRETTIIf somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
More Mario Andretti Quotes
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You do a period of go-karting until you’re at the age of qualifying for a ride in a ‘school-kart,’ then you qualify for driving school. And several of the driving schools have a competition series for their own students.
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I don’t have any feeling of accomplishment about anything unless there’s a lot of risk to it.
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The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting?
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With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros.
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It makes great conversation to discuss what’s wrong with open-wheel racing today.
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I’ve driven just about every kind of car there is.
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If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
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At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that’s clearly why manufacturers are involved – it’s such a good testbed.
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I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t.
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If the Indy Racing League didn’t have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
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I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.
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We always had a relationship, but what’s important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.
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Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.
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Let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don’t force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you’re correct.
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You dream what you’re supposed to do.
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